Clip-cap.



J. W KESSEL.

CLIP CAP.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.19. 1909.

Patented Apr. 19, 1910.

JOSEPH WARREN KESSEL, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW-YORK.

CLIP-CAP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 19, 191a.

Application filed November 19, 1909. Serial No. 528,974.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be itknown that I, J osnrn IV. Knssnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and use ful Clip-Cap, of which the following is a specification.

It is the object of this invention to provide a device adapted to be mounted upon a fountain pen, a pencil, or the like, to retain the same in the pocket of a garment, the construction-being such, that, although the device is thoroughly effective to retain the article in the pocket, it may, nevertheless, be manipulated so that the wencil or pen may readily be removed the vf'rom.

The drawings show but on form of the invention, and it is to be understood that changes, properly falling within the scope of what is claimed, may be made, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to denote corresponding. parts throughout the several figures of the drawings, wherein I Figure 1 shows the invention in perspective; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the clip;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the socket; and

Fig. 4 is a transverse section, the article engaged by the device being shown in elevation.

The invention includes a tubular socket 1, provided at one end, with a longitudinally extending slot 2, terminating within the body of the'socket. This socket 1 is preferably fashioned from resilient metal, and is adapted to serve as a mounting for the garment-engaging clip, which, in the pres ent instance, includes a resilient tongue 3, provided at its lower extremity with an olive shaped head 4. Adjacent one end, the tongue 3 is provided with spaced studs 5, reduced at one end, as denoted by the nu meral 6, and terminating in outstanding heads 7, the reduction in the studs, denoted -by the numeral 6, resulting in the formation of shoulders S. r

In practical operation the pencil or pen 9, is introduced into the-socket 1. The reduced portions 6 of the studs 5 are then slid into the slot 2 of the socket 1, the heads 7 and the shoulders 8 preventing the tongue 8 from having movement transversely of the socket in which it is mounted. The heads 7 of the studs are wedged between the socket 1 and the pencil 9, the pencil being thus held firmly within the socket, the socket, owing to its resilient property, tending to hold the heads 7 of the stud firmly .against the pencil or pen.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the pencil 9 may readily be, inserted into the socket 1 and adjusted therein, the heads 7 of the studs serving to hold the pencil 9, in the desired position within the socket 1, the pencil, being held securely, against the heads 7 by the resilient socket 1, serving to preventthe studs from moving out of the slot 2 in which they are mounted. IVhen it is desired to remove the pen or pencil 9, from the socket 1, the studs 5 may be slid out of the slot 2-, whereupon the pencil 9 may readily be removed from the socket. Therefore, instead of having to drag'the pencil 9 out of the socket 1 against a close frictional contact, effective throughout the full length of the pencil, the engagement between the heads 7 and the pencil may be broken by moving the tongue 3 and the studs 5 which are assembled therewith, through a relatively short distance, the possibility of mutilating the pen or pencil 9, or of injuring the studs 5 being correspondingly reduced. I

The member, it should be noted, isentirely open upon its interior, and unencumbered, so that the" pencil, when introduced within the member 1, will be at all times in engagement with the heads? of the studs.

Having thus described the invention What is claimed is 2- In an article-retaining device, a tubular socket having a longitudinally disposed slotin one end; a spring tongue; spaced studs outstanding from the tongue and arranged to be inserted in the slot, the studs havlr g heads arranged to extend upon either side of the slot and to protrude into the interior of the socket.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto allixed my signature in the presence of two'witnesses.

.iosnrn WARREN KESSEL. Witnesses MARCUS EDWIN MARWELL, ADAM GHRISTMANN, Jr. 

